crisis vs crossroads

crisis and crossroads both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crisis	Yes	No	No	No
crossroads	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, crossroads is a hyponym of crisis; that is, crossroads is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than crisis:

crisis: an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
crossroads: a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made

Other hyponyms of crisis include Dunkirk, exigency, critical point, juncture, depression, economic crisis, slump.

crisis (noun)	crossroads (noun)
a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something	a point where a choice must be made
an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty	a community of people smaller than a village
	a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made